Windows 10: Issues printing caused by Windows 10 adding print server queues to the system

The print server is Windows 2016, additionally we have Papercut MFP installed on it for accounting etc.Some Windows 10 computers are adding the print queue to the machine instead of the user. This is evidenced by the fact any local users logging onto the computer are automatically given those printers, too.When logged on with administrator privileges removing them from device manager or the printer settings does not remove them for more than a few seconds before the system adds them again.Stopping the spooler service and removing them individually from the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentCon

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Print Queue Personality Configuration

I've created many plot/print queues for the convenience of our users.

• Print queue personality is set on the Print Server
• Personality settings include preset - orientation, paper size (A, B C, D, E), color/B&W, etc.

With these preset personality settings, my users don't have to go through the print configuration steps for all the different types of documents they print.

They simply select the queue and print.

Some time a while ago, the personality settings for each print queue saved on my print server are no longer the default print queue setting on the users machine after they select the print queue.

Is there some way I can automatically "push" the print queue personality settings to every client who uses the queues?

Clients - W7 & W10

Print Server OS - Server 2012

Applications used - MS Office Suite, MicroStation, BentleyView, Bluebeam, G Technology Suite

 

Print Queue Personality Configuration

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Print queue on Windows Server 2012 doesn't refresh to show jobs printed for several minutes

We print hundreds of documents from a Robot on a Win 2012 server to a Corporate Print Queue. When printing from the server the job spools and we can observe it in the queue from a Windows 10 user workstation but the print queue utility on the server doesn't
show the jobs for several minutes (5-15).

Clicking refresh has no effect, you just have to wait until the queue decides to refresh.

There is no traffic blocked between the Win 2012 server and the Print server itself.

We observe no latency across the network, no retries and no dropped packets based on packet captures on both sides/servers.

There are no error messages in the event logs of either server.

There is no WAN optimization or other caching/compression type devices in play.

The jobs spool just fine and we can observe them locally on Win 10 user machines in the Print server queue immediately.

We are using the Canon Uni-flow driver and Canon reports no errors and point to some issue with Windows Print Queue Manager.